Congress will approve $ 1.375 billion for a wall along the southern border as part of the $ 1.4 trillion bus spending bill for next fiscal year, according to GOP sources.
Congress is expected to approve the measure Monday along with a $ 900 billion COVID-19 relief bill. The White House pointed it out Sunday evening President Trump
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Trump had previously given conflicting signals about whether he would support the massive package, which congressional leaders on both sides backed Sunday. The money for the border wall, which coincides with funding included last year for the issuance of Trump’s signatures, could represent another reason for Trump to sign the bill.
Funding for the wall has been a regular spot on annual spending bills and has led to the country’s longest government shutdown in December 2018.
Budget law requires the government to spend appropriate funds, but it is unclear whether the president-elect Joe Biden
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Funding for the wall to that extent would continue after Trump left office.
Trump had asked for $ 2 billion for the wall in 2021, but Democrats put no funding for the project on their credit bills, eventually recovering funds from previous years and blocking transfers from other accounts through powers of emergency in the legislation passed in the House.
The $ 1.375 billion figure is the same that Democrats and Republicans agreed on in a compromise spending bill last year.
While in previous years Trump expressed his vocation by insisting that the wall be funded, the issue ended with negotiations this year, as Congress focused on COVID-19 legislation.